Hey (very long intro)

Hey. Joined this forum because of an error that occurred whenever I put my iTouch to sleep while downloading an app. I think I will use this forum for future issues, though, too.

I have an iTouch 8GB 2G that I got for my birthday in August. But despite it saying 8GB, it's actually 7.01GB. Anyone know why? My step-brother also has one, and his is a 3G 32 GB.

Device info:

Currently on the 3.1 iPhone firmware

Recently jailbroken with blackra1n

281 songs, and 1.13 GB/18.7 hours worth of songs

Over 600 KB photo (only 1 photo)

Over 300 MB of apps, seven total

Close to 300 MB other

Apps I currently have (jailbroken):

Skype

iSoda

10balls7cups

Ravensword

Scanner 911

100 Words To Make You Sound Smart (I like learning new words)

Need For Speed: Shift

So yeah, that's it for my iTouch.

Other crap about me:

I'm a very shy and friendly guy. I'm 17 years old, and currently in 12th grade with a 3.55 GPA. I have my permit to drive, which should've been a Provisional back in November, but I don't travel much, so I don't have a lot of driving experience yet. I drive my mom's white Pontiac Grand AM GT coupe. She loves Grand AMs, Mustangs, and other sporty cars. I'm an only child with a step-brother who's currently 14, and a step-sister who's currently 21.

I love video gaming. I got into it when I was eight years old, when I got my first system: a Sega Genesis. Then at age ten I got a Nintendo 64, and loved its Mario games, and which is why I am a big fan of Nintendo's franchises, and why I chose my username. I currently own a Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 64, and a GBA with no games (lost them all). My favorite video games are probably Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and The Conduit, which I got for Christmas. I also belong to six Nintendo forums, and am active on three of them. Forum browsing and posting is another hobby of mine.

I also like making videos and uploading them to YouTube. I mostly do gameplay videos, or other random things that may come to mind. A few of my videos have become popular already, and I wasn't even thinking that would happen at all. They were merely gameplay videos of Nintendo Game Cube games.

I was born in Florida, but moved a ton throughout my life. I've lived in Pennsylvania, New York, and now currently am in New Jersey. I never knew my biological dad because he was an alcoholic and abused my mom, so she divorced while I was still a baby. I'm a Philadelphia sports fan, too, since a lot of my family and step-family are from that area.

Music, I will listen to anything I like, but I prefer death metal, some black metal, and some deathcore. My favorite bands are currently Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, and The Faceless.

So that's it for me. Hope I can make the best out of this forum. See ya around.

To answer your question, the firmware the iPod takes up about a gig, leaving you with seven instead of eight.

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The firmware doesn't take up a GB of space. It depends on what the company calls a GB.

Wikipedia said:

Although most manufacturers of hard disk drives and flash-memory disk devices define 1 gigabyte as 1000000000bytes, the computer operating systems used by most users usually calculate size in gibibytes by dividing the total capacity in bytes by 1073741824, but report the result with the symbol GB.

The firmware doesn't take up a GB of space. It depends on what the company calls a GB.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Although most manufacturers of hard disk drives and flash-memory disk devices define 1 gigabyte as 1000000000bytes, the computer operating systems used by most users usually calculate size in gibibytes by dividing the total capacity in bytes by 1073741824, but report the result with the symbol GB.